American sign language : a teacher's resource text on grammar and culture
This volume of the American Sign Language series explains in-depth the grammar and structure of American Sign Language (ASL) while also presenting a description of the Deaf community in the United States. Written for teachers with minimal training in linguistics, it includes many illustrations, examples, and dialogues that also focus on specific aspects of the Deaf community
Print Book,English, 1991, ©1980
Clerc Books, Gallaudet University Press, Washington, D.C., 1991, ©1980
xviii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780930323844, 093032384X
24120797
What is a "language"?
English in the deaf community
Sign formation and variation
Selected sign types
Sentence types
Time
Pronominalization
Subjects and objects
Classifiers
Locatives
Pluralization
Temporal aspect
Distributional aspect
"The original green books."--Cover
Originally published: Silver Sprig, Md. : T.J. Publishers, 1980